How much does investment drive economic growth in China?

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 751-774

  Qin, Duo ^a,b   Cagas, Marie Anne ^a   Quising, Pilipinas ^a   He, Xin Hua ^c  

^a Economics and Research Department   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Granger non causality; Growth; Impulse response function; Investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748681903     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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